Software Testing Club

Birmingham Software Testing Club Meetup

November 15, 2011 · 7:00 PM
Old Joint Stock Pub & Theatre

Drinks, networking, lightning talks and James Bach.

Twitter hashtag = #BSTCMeetup

Please let me know if you're interested in doing a 5-10min lightning talk.

Currently we have the following items:

** Bill Matthews ** - Test Strategy

** Adam Knight ** - Where can we learn about how our software interacts with its environment?

** Simon Knight ** - Recent Experience with Cucumber & BDD

** James Bach ** - Transitioning to Context-Driven Testing

** Bill Matthews ** - draw for "Matt Heusser & Govind Kulkarni's - "How to Reduce the Cost of Software Testing." (RSVP to be in for a chance to win!!!)

Please note - all items are subject to time constraints and may be changed at short notice.

TekSystems have kindly offered to buy some drinks for us all - please take the time to thank Jon Richardson when you see him.

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simon knight

Your thoughts on proposed *new* format for Meetup 29th March appreciated!

http://sjpknight.com/2012/02/th...

0 · February 5, 2012
simon knight

James Bach's and my talks can now be found here - http://sjpknight.com/blog/

As a matter of interest, some of you may be interested in James' next Rapid Software Testing course, details for which can be found here - http://www.amiando.com/e/ulrwbl

0 · November 28, 2011
simon knight

I had a great time sharing with, listening to, learning from and most importantly meeting fellow testers! Looking forward to more of the same in February.

0 · November 17, 2011
simon knight

Adam Knight's talk now available in video form here http://ow.ly/7wuZP and on the SoftwareTestingClub site. I'll add links to James' and my talks once they're online.

0 · November 17, 2011
Ammi Shah

A it was my 1st meet up, it was really interesting to meet fellow testers from around the area. The talks have given me alot of food for thought in how I am going to approach the testing I am doing

0 · November 17, 2011
simon knight

Name badges?! Hmmm.... Could be onto something there. :-D

0 · November 17, 2011
Feroz

This was my second session and I think it was just excellent, very informative and helpful, specially the talk by James about context driven testing. A big thanks to Simon and other organizers.

0 · November 16, 2011
Ranjit Shringarpure

First timer. Enjoyed the talks from Simon, Adam and James. Looking forward to the next one.

0 · November 16, 2011
Paul Berry

Great talks and plenty of debate after each one. My only complaint is that the evening wound up fairly early (yes, 9:30 is early)!

0 · November 16, 2011
Ross Lister

Good, thought provoking talks. Especially the Context Driven Testing debate.

0 · November 16, 2011
Joss Smith

very informative talks. certainly sparked a lot of discussion with my colleagues on the way home :)

0 · November 16, 2011
Chris

Excellent night, good talk, great conversations, can't wait for the next one! Can't suggest much to improve it... name badges? Anybody who wants to get in contact for any reason, even to say hi, there are details on my profile.

0 · November 15, 2011
A former member

bah, scheduled on the exactly the same day as http://hydrahack.co.uk/ guess I'll have to come to the next one!

0 · November 13, 2011
simon knight

James has confirmed he'll be talking on "Transitioning to Context-Driven Testing from other schools."

0 · October 25, 2011
Ray Hutty

I am inclined to agree with Bill Matthews. Having just found out what Buccanear Learning is, I would be suprised if he does not at least refer to it in a talk about testing...

0 · October 25, 2011
Bill Matthews

Getting James to talk about Buccaneer Learning sounds good but I'm guessing most people will want him to be talking about Testing. My ideas would be

- Leadership in Testing
- Future trends in testing
- Transitioning to context driven testing from "other schools"
- James' experiences of adopting Context driven testing in large organisations; at CAST he mentioned that a large financial org has recently adopted this approach so it would be interesting to find out more about how worked out.

0 · October 25, 2011
simon knight

**RSVP** to be in for a chance at winning Matt Heusser & Govind Kulkarni's "How to Reduce the Cost of Software Testing."

0 · October 24, 2011
simon knight

James has asked for suggestions on what he should talk about. Any thoughts?

I'd be quite interested to learn more about his Buccaneer approach to learning (http://www.buccaneerscholar.com...) - but this may not be to everyone's taste, so let me know your views here or @sjpknight_ltd (use the hashtag please!)

0 · October 21, 2011